Crime Labs Are Drowning in Work. That Hurts Us All. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-06-22/supreme-court-makes-mo... In 2013, a chemist named Annie Dookhan pleaded guilty to multiple charges relating to allegations that she’d falsified results while working at a laboratory that performed drug tests for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. After her downfall, the lab where she worked was closed, and other staff chemists were investigated. Tens of thousands of drug cases were dismissed.